The Plan and The List

The Plan

Well, here's the plan. I want to find balance in my life. It's as simple as that. I'm kind of thinking about it as of  being terminally ill and putting my affairs in order before the time runs out.

I'm going to focus on and try to improve four different areas of my life (listed alphabetically, not in order of importance), that have direct impact on levels of my happiness and satisfaction:

• Career (and all that is related to me having one, from education to work performance)
• Personal Growth (physical, intellectual and possibly spiritual, many of the goals are things I've always wanted to do, but just kept on putting them off for later... feeling of achievement is what I'm going for)
• Relationships (both romantic and social)
• Situational (depending on 2 or more other categories, thus undefinable)

For each category I'm going to make a "To Do" list and work my way through it before I turn 30. Some items will be a one-time tasks, other will be of more continuous nature. Because I'm not good at foreseeing and anticipating, for the time being I will not restrict individual goals to any kind of time frame (except the final deadline), but again, your opinions are welcome...

The List

I will not explain each item on the list right away, since this would make the list itself rather long and complicated. Instead, whenever I start working on particular goal, I will explain its' significance or background story in the post.


Career:

• Pay off the University debt
• Re-read all the university text books
• Improve my graphic design skills
• Finish my unfinishable novel (publishing is optional)

Personal Growth:

• First and foremost, become more proactive (sadly, I'm a thinker, not a doer)  -  doing better than in the past =>  ✓
• Start working out, again
• Start jogging
• Start a martial art class
• Quit smoking (completely, at the moment  I smoke 2-4 cigarettes a day)
• Horse riding       ✓
• Scuba diving
• Surfing (or at least wind surfing, I've always wanted to try and never really made it happen)
• Find out what really happened to my cat
• Visit my "flying dog's" grave
• Stop eating junk food when on my own (actually, I'm not a bad cook, most of the time I just can't be bothered to cook for one)
• NEW: I wanna learn how to do a backflip! All my life I've wanted to be able to do that and never got the guts to actually learn how!

Relationships:

• Take the current one to the next level - either we are compatible or we are not, in which case it might be time to move on       ✓
• Visit my family (haven't seen them in 3 years, some of them even more than that)       ✓
• Reconnect with people I care about but I've lost touch with (mostly due to my shortcomings)   -   that's an ongoing process, but I'd say so far I'm managing, so ...  ✓
• Meet my biological father for the first time in my life

Situational:

• Living situation (moving to a cheaper flat, moving in with my better half, getting a roommate or possibly leaving Greece altogether)
• Decide whether I want to get masters degree and if so, how to make financially possible

This list it most definitely not definite, since I believe overtime I'll add more and more items and goals, so don't forget to check it every now and then to get the updates.